《中国少数民族原始宗教经籍汇编:东巴经卷》讲述了：中华民族是中国各民族的总称，她是经过长期纷争与交融而形成的内涵十分丰富的民族有机联合体。中华民族有着一百多万年从“蒙昧”走向“野蛮”的历程，有着五千多年的有籍可靠的文明发展史，有着两千多年的统一的多民族的国家发展史和中华民族发展史。其间，各个民族，包括那些已经消亡的民族，不仅为本民族的发展和进步，也为整个中华民族的形成、发展和进步做出了各自的历史贡献。这与中华民族的居住环境，中华民族的多源多流，各民族经济的相互依存、交流与互补以及各民族文化的交流与交融是分不开的。

皇帝是“三无人员”？
宗藩、后妃和宦官的命运由皇帝的喜怒哀乐一夕决定？
皇权与相权的斗争衍生出怎样的朝堂政治？
中央政务和地方变迁有哪些纠葛？
科举考试原来只是万里长征的第一步，古代官员如何被任免，又怎样开展自己的工作？
古代中国的军事外交跟今天大不相同？
明清是传统政治最为成熟的时代。本书着眼于古代政治制度的表与里，勾勒演变轨迹，梳理出饶有趣味的非学术体简史。全书分十二个专题娓娓道来，既厘清了古代中国的制度架构，又找到了解读政治的另一把钥匙——人情。

本书描述了麦当劳在东亚五大城市：台北、香港、北京、东京、首尔，如何融入当地文化的成功经验。在跨国经营的背后，麦当劳其实十分重视文化差异这件事。麦当劳董事长詹姆士·坎特洛普曾说过，麦当劳的目标是“尽可能成为当地文化的一部分”，除了在各地积极举办各种社区活动外，当日本人觉得正餐一定要吃饭才吃得饱，又想吃烧烤的料理时，东京的麦当劳就从善如流，开始卖咖哩饭和照烧猪肉堡。在香港人的认知中，笑脸迎人必有诈，麦当劳就调整当地员工教育训练的方式，不去强调麦当劳一贯的微笑式服务。总之，麦当劳会根据不同的市场环境在经营方式上做调整。

意大利人是美国最早的“包工头”?爱尔兰人没来之前，美国人不会酿酒?犹太人如何能在逆境中从一无所有到腰缠万贯?华人能立足于美国的最大优势是家庭教育?
托马斯·索威尔编著的《美国种族简史》将引领你客观地认识美国的种族史，讲述一个由痛苦、自豪和成就所构成的故事。
作者运用大量的史实、数字，深入浅出地讲述了各个移民种族在美国的奋斗史、文化史和融入美国社会的历程，包括爱尔兰人、德国人、意大利人、日本人、犹太人、华人、墨西哥人、黑人、波多黎各人等。
众所周知，美国是个多种族的国家，不同历史时期由不同种族移民带至美国的形形色色的文化，在美国社会中交汇、融合，形成了美国今天的文化，这种多样性也对美国经济、政治、人民生活、教育、科技等的发展起到了举足轻重的作用。美国社会中的不少特殊用语、食物、音乐以及文化特点，曾一度是具有种族色彩的祖传家珍，现在却都变成美国传统的一部分。
统一性和多样性的混合，不仅贯穿美目的历史，也贯穿着今目的美国社会。没有哪一个种族是完全独特的，但也没有哪两个种族群是完全相同的。通向多元化和各民族融洽相处的道路，是漫长而崎岖不平的。
今天，听到肯尼迪家族、安德鲁·卡内基、塞林格、贝聿铭、艾森豪威尔这些响亮的名字时，人们首先会想到他们是美国人，而不在乎他们来自哪个种族。在美国这个大熔炉中，种族并未消失，但无论是各个种族还是美国这个国家，都已今非昔比了。
本书于1981年在美国出版，至今已过去了30多年。然而，书中翔实的数据资料、对种族特点的分析和论述，直到现在仍不过时。

本书在两个主题下对甘肃大川进行了精细的考察。第一个涉及人的受难，包括个人的遭遇和社区的挫败，第二个涉及对灾难的处理，以及在ZZ迫害、经济萧条、文化中断之后的复苏。

目录
一种精神腐蚀剂.......................伍雍谊
—对我国三十、四十年代黄色歌曲的认识
怎样看待港台“流行歌曲”..............周荫昌
关于“流行音乐”的对话.................瞿维
分清轻音乐与靡靡之音..................丁善德
从衡量靡靡之音的尺寸谈起..............王云阶
因势利导，循循善诱...................周大风
——谈港澳流行庸俗歌曲的渗入
还历史本来面目........................南咏
——关于《何日君再来》的答问
也谈《何日君再来》问世经过.............应国靖
《蔷薇处处开》是一首什么样的歌曲？........陆维
资本主义世界的“流行音乐”.............伍雍谊

《裁判的方法(第2版)》包括三部分内容：一是民法解释学的历史；二是民法解释学的基本理论；三是民法解释学的方法。《裁判的方法(第2版)》共五讲，内容包括民法解释学概述、法律解释方法、法律漏洞补充方法、不确定概念的价值补充等。

什么是社会学？社会学有什么用？我们该如何学习和践行社会学？
美国社会学家乔恩·威特教授所著的《社会学入门（第3版）》，使用了现实世界的大量例子和数据资源，从功能论、冲突论和互动论的视角解读经济、政治、文化、宗教、教育、阶级、家庭、种族和民族，解释全球化及不平等、健康与环境、社会变迁等社会现象，使我们在领略到严谨的学术性的同时，也能感受到强烈的时代气息。
本书用图文并茂的内容、风格多样的行文和活泼不拘的排版给人以强烈的视觉冲击。再加上“流行文化中的社会学”“关于社会学的五部电影”“社会学思考”等丰富多彩的互动栏目，为我们创造了一种妙趣横生的学习方式，促使我们批判性地思考和自己密切相关的社会问题，帮助我们更轻松地拨开社会迷雾、看透世界真相，并以社会学家的视角观察社会，通过改变自己的选择来改变世界。
《社会学入门（第3版）》是我们学习社会学、了解当今世界的**入门读物，适合广大普通读者、在校大学生、社区工作人员和****干部阅读。

《支配社会学》包括了支配的结构及其功能形态、官僚制支配的本质、前提条件及其开展、家父长制支配与家产制支配、封建制、身份制国家与家产制、卡理斯玛支配及其变形、政治支配与教权制支配。

本书讲述的华中地区某乡镇基层政权、村级组织和农民在复杂的互动结构中博弈共生的过程和状况，为读者提供了新颖而富启发性的视角，是一部有一定思想冲击力的学术著作。
本书采用“讲故事”的方式叙述，生动展现了农村基层政权以及村、组织和农民个体多方面多层次的工作和生活实态，人物鲜活、情节曲折、可读性强，同时又对描述的对象进行了深入的分析和阐释，是对当下中国农村的不可多得的“深度描写”。

本书是马长寿先生的遗著，动笔于一九六二年，以后时断时续，到一九六五年，一直没有完成。十年浩劫中，原稿虽几经辗转，但幸运地保存下来，而先生却因精神上备受摧残，不幸于一九七一年五月病逝。
先生一生致力于民族研究，四十多年来，孜孜不倦，勤奋刻苦，著述甚丰，尤其对中国民族史颇多建树。先生学识广博，治学严谨，尤注意亲自深入少数民族地区调查，故所著多有创见，自成一家之言。
这部未完成的遗稿，出版社委托我整理出版。我虽从先生学习中国民族史多年，自知能力菲薄，实难担此重任，但又感义不容辞，故忞勉从之。如有不符先生原意之处，自应由整理者负责。

《当代中国的启蒙与反启蒙》，从思想史的视角梳理了包括后现代思潮、国家主义思潮、新左翼思潮、虚无主义思潮、反西方主义思潮等各种思潮，并对其源流、影响做了考辨，进而深刻指出：当今的中国只有继续沿着启蒙的路径，融入人类主流文明，才能巩固和发展改革开放的成果，真正实现中华民族的复兴。

为何英国人比日本人相互信任度低？为何美国少女怀孕率比法国高？为何瑞典人比澳大利亚人更瘦？……一切社会问题，都指向同一个答案。
社会公平与收入分配对人类社会的影响之宽令人惊讶。本书以大量精确的统计学实据，展现了不平等对社会中每一个成员的相互信任度、寿命、青少年怀孕、肥胖、精神疾病、犯罪率、社会流动性、教育等方面造成的不可忽视的巨大影响。

来自印尼、菲律宾和越南的女性，来到陌生的国度从事家务劳动。雇用她们的台湾雇主，多数是青壮年的中产阶级，他们的父母辈少有在家雇用佣人的历史，这些“新富家庭”的经验，映现了台湾社会在阶级、族群、性别与代间关系的转变。

为了解台湾雇主和东南亚帮佣之间的互动关系，台湾大学社会系教授蓝佩嘉花了数年时间，访谈了超过百位的印菲帮佣和台湾雇主，了解劳雇双方在家庭屋檐下所面临的结构困境、生存策略与认同政治。

蓝佩嘉以“跨国灰姑娘”的比喻来彰显家务移工的处境：她们或为了逃离家乡的贫穷与压迫，或为了扩展人生视野及探索现代世界。跨越国界工作后，却发现自己坐困雇主家中，被视为“用完就丢”的劳动力，灰姑娘的美满结局仍如童话般梦幻。

相对于2006年的英文版，作者以返璞归真的母语和大量的生命故事，描绘了“跨国灰姑娘”的身影，并且透过社会学透视，展现了台湾雇主和东南亚移工，在全球化社会中相遇而生的种种面貌。

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这本具有开创性的研究，呈现了种族、阶级、性别和公民身份等等界限，如何在家务移工的生命中形成。蓝佩嘉经由划界工作的理论透镜，为萌芽发展中的女性迁移研究贡献了极为重要的成果。这是一本杰出的作品。

——Rhacel Parreñas, 布朗大学美国文明学系教授

我们或许会以为，只要和世界上的其他人接触越多，我们和他们的社会关系就越亲密。但是蓝佩嘉指出我们错得有多严重。在某些状况下，台湾的女雇主和他们的菲佣很“亲密”，但在其他时候两方则非常疏远。的确，有时最接近的反面最为遥远。这本脉络清晰、掷地有声的重要著作，便是在讨论这些现象如何发生。

——Arlie Hochschild，柏克莱大学社会学系荣誉教授

这是一本独一无二的学术作品，论述圆融、研究透彻、理论扎实，不但具有高度可读性，而且蕴含深度人文关怀。

——Delias Davin，英国里兹大学中国学研究所荣誉教授

In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.
Project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Holly’s Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Holly’s legacy.
Summary: This book is great
Rating: 5
I read this book for school... but I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter. (Reading it, I was always wandering around talking to friends and family about it). The book is short, but there is a lot to think about. :)
Summary: How urban areas work
Rating: 5
Years ago I watched an episode of NOVA on PBS on William H. Whyte that explained the background and purpose and accomplishments of his project to study what makes urban spaces in cities work. I sat there riveted, as he methodically and carefully unveiled a vast range of urban phenomena of which I had hitherto been unaware.
The background to his study was this: following the enormous success of the plaza of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York in the mid-1950s, the city began to give tax breaks to new buildings that included plazas as part of their design. At the Seagram, people found in the heart of the city a marvelous space in which to congregate, to eat lunch, to sit and talk, and just enjoy a few minutes away from the office. While the idea of providing an incentive to new plaza development was unquestionably a great aim, a small problem developed: many of the new plazas were, unlike that of the Seagram, just dreadful. Cold, austere, people unfriendly, unwelcoming, many of them seemed designed more to keep people away than give them a place to enjoy themselves. This is where Whyte comes in. New York City was concerned with codifying what made a successful plaza, and giving tax breaks based more on the kind of plaza being built, rather than any kind of plaza at all. So, Whyte was charged with discovering precisely what goes into a successful urban space. The results of his exhaustive study are summed up in this brilliant monograph.
Whyte took cameras and began filming all kinds of urban spots in plazas and parks, and on regular sidewalks. As a result of this study, he was able first to analyze how urban spaces work, and secondly on the basis of this make, to make suggestions as to how to make successful spaces. He discusses the enormous value and utility of using fountains or falling water both to provide aesthetic benefits and to create a barrier of white noise between an urban space and the street. He shows the value of having a variety of steps and levels in providing fun places to sit. He allays the fears of those who are afraid that a plaza will attract undesirables by showing that the homeless tend to go where other people are not. He displays the patterns of traffic on sidewalks and the function that street food can play. Whyte comes across not merely as a sophisticated urban planner and social scientist: he is revealed as a visionary.
I think that this ought to be a must-read for anyone with any curiosity about cities and the potential they possess for a vibrant and exciting social life. Here in my own city of Chicago, I constantly lament that Whyte's lessons go unheeded and unlearned. We Chicagoans take pride in how clean our downtown area is, but we possess very, very few plazas, instead having virtually all of our buildings coming all the way to the edge of the sidewalk. I lament that there are so few places in the Loop and the near North to sit at lunch, that so very, very little has been done along the river to make it people friendly, and that there are so few places to congregate. We have a gorgeous, inpirational skyline, but on the sidewalk level, things are different. I wish our city planners had more of Whyte's view of things.
Summary: A classic case study for urban design professionals
Rating: 5
Although the photographs are dated, the material is classic. This book is a must for anyone who is involved with design or review of open spaces. It shows how people use open space and identifies the common elements of successful spaces. While the elements all seem logical, the book shows how we often fly in the face of logic when using these spaces. The book focuses primarily on plazas and small parks in New York City, but includes a section for smaller cities with low rise buildings. The information can also be applied to parks in any size town. This book is a facinating case study in social ecology.

In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.




Project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Holly's Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Holly's legacy.




From the forward:




For more than 30 years, Project for Public Spaces has been using observations, surveys, interviews and workshops to study and transform public spaces around the world into community places. Every week we give presentations about why some public spaces work and why others don't, using the techniques, ideas, and memorable phrases from William H. "Holly" Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.




Holly Whyte was both our mentor and our friend. Perhaps his most important gift was the ability to show us how to discover for ourselves why some public spaces work and others don't. With the publication of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces and its companion film in 1980, the world could see that through the basic tools of observation and interviews, we can learn an immense amount about how to make our cities more livable. In doing so, Holly Whyte laid the groundwork for a major movement to change the way public spaces are built and planned. It is our pleasure to offer this important book back to the world it is helping to transform.

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

歷史上名不見經傳的每一個小人物，
其實都在寫歷史，
他們在歷史的發展中，
占據了非常關鍵的地位，
扮演了極為重要的角色。
《編戶齊民》是從靜態史料看動態歷史。
《編戶齊民》是古代社會過渡到傳統社會的轉型史，也是傳統政治社會結構的形成史。
《編戶齊民》綜結古代社會的轉變痕跡，也對傳統兩千年政治社會的本質提出解釋。
《編戶齊民》雖然利用制度史的材料，探討的卻是社會史的課題

《制度是如何形成的》(增订版)大致分成三编。第一编主要是关注一些社会和法律的热点问题，诸如言论自由和隐私权、婚姻法修改、刑事诉讼法修改、送法下乡、科技与法律以及司法审查和制度形成的问题。当然都只是“攻其一点，不及其余”，试图从一个角度切人进行学理的然而可能对社会实践有影响的讨论。第二编的文字是对于法学自身的反思。最后一编的五篇是读书笔记和读后感。

《乡村社会权力和文化结构的变迁》(1903-1953)收入22篇文章，大致以时间为序，以专题形式，论述了从清末到新中国成立初期，乡村社会各阶层与各时期国家权力的互动、乡村社会意识形态的变化，而以后者更为精彩。 中国农村政治为什么会走到这一步?为什么非走这一步?《乡村社会权力和文化结构的变迁》(1903-1953)正是通过回顾1903—1953年之间的农村社会历史，试图彻底厘清我国农村基层政权和文化结构变迁的内在线索和发展方向。理清这个脉络，对认识百年中国，尤其是大规模推进现代化的近代中国，具有非常重要的意义。